Thread: Hey everyone

Hey guys, Just joined this site today because I feel like I am finally making progress with lucid dreaming, and wanted to post about it. I have been trying to lucid dream for about a year now, with not much success. I dont remember why I started, but I was very interested in all the articles about it. At first I tried to make my own methods, but none of them worked, so I looked up other ways people get lucid dreams. I spent quite a few months trying different ways, but none ever seemed to work. I wake up usually once or twice during the night, so I have filled up a notebook with dreams to help with my dream recall. Every few months or so I would have a Lucid dream, but they were never very long, and usually I just slipped back into the dream. I even installed an app on my phone that senses REM cycles and plays audio cues to help you know you are dreaming, but even that didnt work. Lately, I think I have found a way to get myself to lucid dream about 70% of the time. I get plenty of sleep (usually sleeping in till 9 and going to bed at 10) so my REM cycles start at like 4 in the morning. I set an alarm to wake me up, and then as I fall back asleep I repeat to myself "lucid dream". I am not sure why this works, but it does. I always fall asleep, and sometime in my dream I realize it is a dream. I usually get varied results, such as sometimes I wake up right when I realize it, sometimes I know I am dreaming, but not enough to change anything, and even occasionally when im falling back asleep I hit Sleep paralysis. I am super excited that I finnaly found a way to Lucid dream, after working at it for about a year with almost no results. I have had 5 since last sunday already, and am currently working on making them last once I realize I am dreaming with methods such as rubbing my hands together and spinning.